AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota
I had hoped that after landing two interviews in a week and making it to the final round, I would send in my jubilant Hire Education blog post about finally getting a job. Once again, after two fantastic interviews and very flattering reviews, I thought I could finally utter the magical words “I got hired!” In fact, I even said that out loud one day, to see what it sounded like. Truth is that after so many rejections, saying those words almost felt like the end of an adventure. Was this really over?
Of course, post-college life without adventures is terribly bland. As it turns out, I was competing with overqualified candidates who ended up getting the positions. As always, I was told that my exceptional candidacy will take me somewhere better. Having seen so many rejections still hasn’t taught me the art of moving on. I plunged into deep despair and thought that I would not employed by the end of my internship. Chocolate cake and hugs did not make things better either.
That was two weeks ago. Looking back, I think I had made a mistake of seeing myself fit the role of the job so well that no other opportunity in the world could provide the same level of job satisfaction. On the other hand, it is natural to expect positive results—that was the whole goal of the process anyway. I have always made it to the top two spots in my interviews but I am still waiting to be “the other one.”
So now that I am back to square one and have started the process of countless applications, I can only hope that I will be “the one” someday. I am enjoying my internship and learning from distinguished experts about their own struggles of meager pay, voluntary work, random job assignments and, most importantly, failures that made them who they are today. I am taking this phase of my life as a sort of rite of passage to my perfect job. I have no idea when it will knock on my door, but I’m not giving up yet. At least not until I run out of savings.
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